2 hundred heroin-filled tablets and a packet of heroin recovered from a passenger on the New Islamabad Airport as of late. Picture: Geo Information

ISLAMABAD: The Airport Safety Power (ASF) recovered on Wednesday 200 heroin-filled tablets and a packet of heroin from a passenger on the New Islamabad World Airport.

The passenger, recognized as Shahbaz Arif, used to be travelling to Saudi Arabia by way of Dubai on flight EK613.

The suspect, who hails from Sialkot, used to be wearing tablets that weighed 1.5kg and a packet of heroin that weighed 1.1kg at the side of packing subject matter rounding off to two.6kg.

On Monday, the ASF had recovered two kilograms of ice heroin from a passenger. The passenger, recognized as Khalas Taj who hailed from Nowshera, used to be travelling to Riyadh by way of a home airways’ flight.

The passenger used to be later passed over to the to Anti-Narcotics Power for additional investigation.

The incident got here an afternoon after a bullet of a 30-bore pistol used to be recovered from the bag of a Spanish citizen at Islamabad airport.

In line with assets, the Spanish citizen, Aman Masood, used to be to fly to Barcelona by way of Pakistan World Airline flight PK-769 however used to be stopped for interrogation via Airport Safety Power staff when a bullet used to be present in his ownership.

Masood used to be taken into custody and investigation used to be began, assets stated.

The brand new Islamabad airport opened its doorways for operations on Might three after years of delays and setbacks.

Alternatively, the airport didn’t appear in a position to serve passengers as they complained of insufficient services and products an afternoon after the ability used to be opened.